for amplified piccolo and windup toys

Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQYDQoFZAGU&feature=emb_logo

Notes: 
I've had these windup toys for years. Purchased them, initially, for their bright colors and size to run tests on a program I'd built for a completely unrelated project. Though immediately their potential began whispering. 
The related soundscape between these toys and the piccolo is obviously a central idea to this piece, the clicking and the pitched noise, but there is also something very tangible about the relationship of the winding down/winding up function in the toys to that of breathing/the lungs of a flutist that became the underpinnings of this piece.

Et Error No.2 (2021)for amplified piccolo and windup toys

performed by International Contemporary Ensemble

You, Penumbra, Me

Nina Shekhar, composer
Performed by Alarm Will Sound 

Notes from the composer:
During the COVID-19 pandemic – a highly unusual yet new normal, surreal, and yet painfully real time – artists have been challenged to think about what community means. In an artform in which physicality is essential, how is this affected during a pandemic in which our bodies are at risk? Our connection to our physical bodies has deepened, becoming hyper-aware of every breath, every ache, and every anxiety. Furthermore, due to social distancing we haven’t been able to physically connect with each other in the same ways as before, simultaneously craving and fearing each other’s human contact. As society reopens, we’re all itching to get up and dance after sitting on our couches for an entire year. Turn Your Feet Around brings the nightclub to the concert hall. Using deconstructed and warped fragments of the ever fabulous Gloria Estefan’s “Get On Your Feet,” performers have a chance to reconnect with their own physicality by dancing to wild reimagined grooves and 80s-style drum beats. Whether socially distanced or not, it’s time to get on our feet and find the rhythms and movements that have been waiting to unleash this entire year! Because as Gloria says, “Find it, I know it will pull you through.”

Turn Your Feet Around

Sarah Nemtsov
Reshimot (2020)
for four soloists (alto saxophone, e guitar, keyboard and drumset) and orchestra (4.3.4.3/4.3.3.1/4 perc/2 hrp/pno/0 str!)
Nikel Ensemble (Yaron Deutsch, Patrick Stadler, Antoine Francoise, Brian Archinal)
WDR Orchestra
Titus Engel (conductor)

WP: 8.4.2022, WDR Cologne 
Duration: ca. 17′
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excerpt WDR recording
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"Reshimot" is part I of the tetralogy "TZIMTZUM" (2020-2022) for four soloists (Nikel ensemble) and orchestra
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picture: Anselm Kiefer - shvirat hakelim

RESHIMOT (2020) - Nikel - WDR Orchestra - Excerpt

for bass flute, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, tape

premiered by ensemble recherche on 9 October, 2022, at Harvard's Paine Hall

bass flute — Jaume Darbra Fa
oboe — Eduardo Olloqui
bass clarinet — Shizuyo Oka
violin — Melise Mellinger
viola — Victor Guaita
cello — Åsa Åkerberg

i view it as a smooth body.
massive. hungering. in water.
open mouth. pleasure.

it is a whale with a hole, like me,
a throated expanse. towered tunnel. again,
does it want? and again.

Shift (1996-97) by Jenny Saville

i view it as a smooth body (2022)

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics
commissioned by hand werk 

Live Recording, hand werk, 29 November 2022, Köln

echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics

Forget Me Not is written for amplified ensemble: saxophone, e-guitar, piano, synth, percussion, and analog electronics

- commissioned by I & I Foundation, written for Ensemble Nikel

Premiere: Klangspuren Festival, September 2022

Forget Me Not (2022) for Ensemble Nikel

Commission: Südwestrundfunk for the Donaueschingen Musiktage 2022

Live recording of the world première, Musica Nova Helsinki, 3 March 2023.

Performers:
Mattie Barbier, trombone
Weston Olencki, trombone
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Janne Nisonen, conductor

Photo: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

where the dark earth bends (2022, rev. 2023), for RAGE Thormbones, orchestra, and electronics

Ensemble Vortex:
Anne Gillot, bass clarinet
Antoine Françoise, piano
Mauricio Carrasco, electric guitar
Patrick Schleuter, violin
Rada Hadjikostova, viola
Esther Lefebvre, cello
Jocelyne Rudasigwa, double-bass

Live Recording
March 2017, Archipel Festival, Alhambra, Geneva

Alonso - This is a piece about your fucking mother (2017) for ensemble & electronics

Performed at Illinois State University
Jan 22nd, 2019

Finding The Form Of It - Kelley Sheehan

Her Majesty the Fool (2020)
by Oren Boneh
Fanny Vicens, XAMP mictrotonal accordion and electronics

For the video: https://youtu.be/hagaxRg15FE

Composed for Fanny Vicens for premiere at Festival Manifeste IRCAM 2020
Special thanks to Grégoire Lorieux, Thierry De Mey, and the IRCAM Pedagogical Team.
Filmed at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Video production: Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti

Her Majesty the Fool (2020) - for accordion and electronics

composer, noise generator 

https://www.kelleysheehan.com/

Et Error No.2 (2021)for amplified piccolo and windup toys

Kelley Sheehan

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